Nineteen Poems Around a Divorce and Beyond | Nineteen Poems Around a Divorce and Beyond

Apr.12.2012 Scotty’s Play Selected by Yale Drama for Summer Production 2012 Mark Brokaw, the Program Chair of Yale’s Institute for Musical Theater has announced the selection of two plays for their summer workshop. One of them is Scotty’s and Alana’s Mortality Play. Here’s the official report:http://drama.yale.edu/YIMT/index.html Readers of my poetry...	Aug.06.2011 Two Recent Articles on Poetry Including A Poem from Before Christ I’m including an article from this week’s New Yorker about a surviving poem by Lucretius, and one from a local paper about my reading this week in Mok Hill. It’s in the current issue (brown and green cover dated August 8th, 2011), available to subscribers at http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/...
Jul.12.2011 Save These Dates—Three Upcoming Poetry Events Thursday, July 21st (next week), Nils Peterson will be signing books and reading from A Walk to the Center of Things at the Willow Glen Library, 1157 Minnesota Avenue, San José, CA, 95125 at 7PM. This is the first book of the Center's Caesura Edition Series and all current members of...	Sep.16.2010 Transitions Red Room has asked us to blog on transitions, something I thought about continually during my divorce. My son's second grade teacher said he was doing okay but seemed to have a particularly hard time with transitions. At that time we didn't know Scotty was an artistic type (he's in the second...
Jul.11.2010 My Book Cover: Love And Loss Are The Same #2 Working with Deborah Perdue to put together Nineteen Poems Around a Divorce and Beyond, I found the oils of George Oswalt on the Internet and asked him if I could use two of them for my cover art. I was fortunate in that George found several mutual influences on my Red Room web site, including not...